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->''"'SUPERMAN SAYS: '''YOU''' CAN SLAP A JAP' might be the most famous racist comic panel of all time. It's included in nearly every discussion of WWII propaganda and is found on Creator/MelGibson's computer in the folder 'Tattoo Ideas.' But to Superman's credit, he was probably trying to stop that printing press. Superman ''never'' talked like that. I mean, you don't call someone racist when he owns a coffin [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman%27s_Girlfriend,_Lois_Lane_Vol_1_106 that can make his girlfriend black.]]"''-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-shockingly-racist-scenes-in-famous-superhero-comics/#ixzz3Ii9Rzzzl "5 Racist Scenes in Famous Superhero Comics"]]

The term '''wartime cartoon''' refers primarily to cartoons made or released in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and having some specific reference to the war effort. Many wartimes are explicit propaganda, while others make humorous jabs at conditions on the home front such as the rationing of fuels, materials and consumer goods, and even meat.

While some wartimes have remained popular as period pieces, [[ValuesDissonance many of these are now considered controversial]] due to the caricatural depictions of Germans and (especially) Japanese (see ThoseWackyNazis and YellowPeril, respectively). Of course, with the UsefulNotes/{{Holocaust}} occurrence now common knowledge, it's interesting how the racial policies of the Nazis were relatively rarely dwelt upon in those cartoons. So imagine the shock of the general public when the FinalSolution death camps were discovered and their realization that, no matter what awful things the Allied propaganda might have claimed about them up to then, ThoseWackyNazis were actually ''worse'', with them committing acts of villainy that beggared the worst of nightmares.

Typical trademarks of these cartoons that are usually spoofed: propaganda elements, racist caricatures, outdated references to the war effort (i.e., {{Shout Out}}s to save scrap iron, conserve gasoline, buy war bonds, or grow a Victory Garden). UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, and/or Emperor Hirohito often make a cameo and are ridiculed.

Subtrope of PropagandaPiece.----!!Examples:

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[[folder:Disney]]* Possibly the ultimate classic example would be [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney's]] ''[[Disney/DerFuehrersFace Donald Duck in Nutzi Land]]'', in which Donald dreams he's a factory worker in a surreal version of Nazi Germany. This cartoon was the source of the song "Der Fuehrer's Face" (which the short was later renamed after), famously recorded by Spike Jones and his City Slickers:-->"Vhen der Fuehrer says, 'Ve ist der master race', / Ve heil! (''raspberry'') Heil! (''raspberry'') / Right in der Fuehrer's face! / Not to love der Fuehrer ist a great disgrace / So ve heil! (''raspberry'') Heil! (''raspberry'') / Right in der Fuehrer's face!"** Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series included an alternate version of "Der Fuehrer's Face" directed at the Fleetlord of the alien invasion.* Disney had an entire series of shorts devoted to the war effort beginning with ''Donald Gets Drafted'', along with the feature-length animated documentary ''Victory Through Air Power'' (said to have inspired the "Disney bomb" bunker buster).** One of them, ''Commando Duck'', dealt with Donald taking out the Japanese air force; he accidentally does so by flooding it. (Of course, that the Japanese snipers appear to have attended the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy helped, too.)** Subverted, because some of the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck soldier cartoons were not direct propaganda and had a "Beetle Bailey" sense of humor to them. These cartoons tended to show {{Pete}} as Donald's [[DrillSergeantNasty commanding officer]].*** It maybe was even Inverted for some cartoons. ''Donald Gets Drafted'', for example, actually satirized how the real condition of enlistment and training compared to the glamorized propaganda by mocking Don's awful experience in boot camp after being enticed by military recruitment. *** This could also be why he tends to end up in the Army, when the Navy, or [[SemperFi the Marines]] might have been a better place to make use of the services of an anthropomorphic waterfowl. Since the U.S. didn't have a separate Air Force at the time, [[ItMakesSenseInContext it makes sense]] that Donald was in the Army, hoping to get assigned to the ''Army'' Air Forces, which he actually does in one short.** In addition, Donald was the star for an major propaganda film called ''WesternAnimation/TheNewSpirit'' which encouraged Americans to pay their income tax promptly, followed by the sequel ''WesternAnimation/TheSpiritOf43''. (No sequel was needed in '44, because by then Federal Income Tax Withholding had been introduced.) Reportedly, many more Americans did their civic duty because of these films.** Similarly to the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny example below, these cartoons actually got recognized by the real-life United States Military; on his 50th birthday, Donald Duck was officially promoted to the rank of Buck Sergeant in the army and given an honorable discharge.* A more subtle version occurs in ''Chicken Little'' (not the [[Disney/ChickenLittle movie]]) which had Foxy Loxy using Hitler's tactics to break apart a farm community to eat them all. The short has no obvious Nazi imagery (though the original pitch involved Foxy reading ''Mein Kampf'' instead of a psychology book), but the message was clear.** The animators did sneak a subtle reference to the Nazis in. The star Foxy Loxy used to make Chicken Little think the sky was falling? It was from the sign of an astrologer- Madame [[SdrawkcabName Izan]].* The short ''Reason and Emotion'' starts as a simple visualization of the struggle between the mind's reasonable and emotional sides before delving into how Hitler manipulates his country's emotions to remove all reason. The propaganda aspects were removed and re-edited on later broadcasts, like on Disney's TV series ''The Wonderful World of Disney'' to have a new ending about balancing both sides.* A [[NightmareFuel particularly disturbing]] example is 1943's ''Disney/EducationForDeath''. It follows the life of a German boy called Hans from birth (where his parents prove to a judge they're of Aryan pedigree), through being told distorted fairy tales glorifying Hitler as a toddler, being taught to hate a bunny being eaten by a fox (since "the strong shall rule the weak"), participating in BookBurning, and after the next few years spent "marching and heiling, heiling and marching" he, now in his teens, has become a "good Nazi" who says, thinks, and does only what he's told to. In the end, he and others march off to war, their figures fading into rows of graves. It's up to the audience if the dramatic depiction, or the fact that RealLife Nazism operated similarly, is more ''chilling''. All things considered, it did show that not all Germans accepted National Socialism of free will, but rather were forced and indoctrinated into it from a young age. It further portrays Hans' mother to be deeply afraid of it all.** The RealLife implications are subverted in that if Hitler came to power in 1933, a child born under his rule would have been twelve at most by the time the war ended.*** TruthInTelevision: Hitler used ChildSoldiers very late in the war...* Education for death's counterpart is ''VictoryThroughAirpower'', an animated short explaining the vital importance of air superiority in modern war which opens with a montage of aviation history and finishes with a rather prescient and chilling prediction of the saturation bombing of Axis cities to come. It was remarkably prescient about other things too, predicting a "combat plane" that proved to be only slightly over-the-top compared to the B-29 and a rocket powered bunker-buster that the RAF later [[{{Defictionalized}} defictionalized]] as the "Disney Bomb". * Rubber rationing is referenced in the DonaldDuck cartoon "Donald's Tire Trouble", which shows that the tires on Don's car are patched with stray pieces of rubber, including a glove, a hot water bottle and a toilet plunger.* The WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon "Victory Vehicles" references gas rationing and rubber shortages, with citizens looking for replacements for the automobile, eventually settling on the pogo stick. Cut from TV showings is a scene featuring a billboard exhorting people to "Beat the Jap with scrap" and a line of narration about how surplus cement for roads could be dropped on Tokyo and Berlin.* Another Goofy cartoon, "How to Be a Sailor", was pretty straightforward but then went on a war theme in the final scene with Goofy in the Navy. In true Goofy style, he ends up launching ''himself'' from a torpedo tube at various Japanese battleships, all with very Japanese caricatured faces on the bows and each with a rendition of the Japanese battle flag, all of which the torpedoing Goofy manages to blow up and sink as the cartoon ends. At the same time, for good measure, Goofy, still torpedoing, also shatters the Japanese rising sun like a window. (Needless to say, this scene was [[EditedForSyndication cut from most TV broadcasts]].)* Disney's first wartime cartoons were actually made before the US joined the war: four public service announcements for the National Film Board of Canada, making use of reused footage from Disney cartoons of the past. They are: ''All Together'', ''Seven Wise Dwarfs'', ''The Thrifty Pig'', and ''Donald's Decision''.* Disney also made industrial training and technical films like ''Four Methods of Flush Riveting'' for Lockheed Aircraft Co. Disney made or contributed to a lot of similar films, because animation proved to be an ideal tool for demonstrating things (like the inside of an engine or the bottom of a rivet hole) that could not be depicted otherwise.* Disney also maintained a five man staff solely to create insignia for every US or Allied unit that requested one. Units as diverse as the Flying Tigers, HMS Illustrious, and the Free French Pilots of the RAF all received Disney insignia, as did about half of the submarines of the US Pacific Fleet. Pugnacious Donald Duck, Disney's "designated draftee" showed up most often, appearing in 216 insignia. Mickey, by contrast, served mainly on the home front.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Famous Studios]]* Similarly, Creator/FamousStudios did four war-themed [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Superman shorts]] — the rather racist "Japoteurs" (rarely included in compilations), the somewhat less offensive "The Eleventh Hour", and two where Superman battled the Nazis.** Bizarrely, it was one of the Nazi battles that featured the most dehumanizing racial caricatures in any of these shorts, the target here of course being...blacks. In "Jungle Drums", a couple of Nazis have tricked the superstitious natives of DarkestAfrica into doing their bidding. In their capacity as gods/high priests/whatever, the Nazis wear Klan-like outfits, presumably to emphasize their bad-guy racism. The effect is rather spoiled by the fact that the "natives" are portrayed as positively demonic, inhuman forces of mindless menace, obviously played more for fear/loathing than the ostensible "villains", a couple of insipidly mean-spirited Germans.* WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} has two rather egregious examples — ''You're a Sap Mr. Jap'' and ''Scrap the Japs'', in which Popeye battles the Japanese Navy (both are available on the Volume 3 DVD). ''Mr. Jap'' is [[ValuesDissonance profoundly disturbing]], as not only does it have the expected caricatures of Japanese people (buck teeth, glasses, wooden sandals, saying "so solly" a lot, being sneaky, manufacturing cheap products, etc.), but the last minute depicts a Japanese soldier mourning the Navy's impending loss to Popeye, drinking gasoline, eating firecrackers, lighting a match, and then wrapping his body around Popeye's. Popeye looks down the soldier's throat, realizes he's about to explode, and abandons ship. It's all done in a strangely non-slapstick manner.** Popeye also fought the Nazis in ''Spinach For Britain'' and ''Seeing Red, White, and Blue'' along with four Japanese soldiers.** Another cartoon, " A Jolly Good Furlough," had a brief rationing gag in which Olive Oyl's car was shown to have old shoes mounted on the wheels instead of tires.** The Popeye short "Rocket to Mars", released the year after the war was over, had Popeye battle an impending martian invasion. On the way to Mars he passes a planet shaped like an eight-ball, with Emperor Hirohito behind it.** "Ration for the Duration" opens with Popeye and his nephews planting a victory garden. Also featured in the cartoon is a giant hoarding things like sugar, tires, and shoes (among other goods) which Popeye, being a participant in rationing, doesn't approve of and decides to take them to help the war effort.** "Her Honor, the Mare" (the first regular short in color) opens with a horse being rejected by a glue factory and has 4-F stamped on his rear end.** "The Mighty Navy" opens with Popeye enlisting in the navy. After the typical slapstick gags that lead to Popeye PeelingPotatoes, the ship he's serving on is attacked by a fleet of enemy vessels, which Popeye dispatches after [[PowerUpFood the pre-requisite Spinach power-up.]] The cartoon ends with Popeye's picture displayed as the new insignia of a Navy bomber squadron. Oddly enough this cartoon had no racist images of Germans or Japanese; the enemy is faceless throughout (we only see their ships and planes) and the only flag shown simply reads "Enemy (Name Your Own)".[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tex Avery]]* At MGM, Creator/TexAvery made a cartoon called ''WesternAnimation/BlitzWolf'' involving the three little pigs as soldiers and the big bad wolf as Hitler. The same man played the "smart little pig" both here and in Disney's "Three Little Pigs" short.** Of especially hilarious note is the disclaimer given at the beginning, which states that the wolf's depiction is non-fictitious and purely intentional...while the tires depicted in it are, in fact, completely bogus.--> And we ain't kiddin' brother!** The smart little pig's brick house has a "No Dogs Allowed" sign with the word "dogs" crossed out and substituted for the word "Japs."** Fred Quimby [[ExecutiveMeddling reportedly ordered]] Tex Avery to never make another short like Blitz Wolf during the duration, because there was no way to know who was going to win the war. This also might explain the conspicuous lack of MGM wartime cartoons, at least compared to other studios.*** By 1945, when the outcome looked much more favorable, Avery released ''Jerky Turkey'' which has almost too many war references to count. For starters: The Pilgrim's ship has a fuel ration card ''and'' offensive armament, when they land at Plymouth Rock they are greeted by a billboard asking "Was this trip really necessary?" and the town cryer is a ''literal'' "Crier" who's sobbing because he just got his draft notice....* Avery's ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' and variants had servicemen as a primary market — in ''Swing Shift Cinderella'' the fairy godmother uses her magic wand to turn a pumpkin into an estate wagon, the Wolf grabs the wand and turns a bathtub into an open roadster and speeds off, and she chases after him, [[RuleOfThree turning a garbage can into a Jeep]]. Oh, and the reason the fairy godmother's magic wears off at midnight? [[TitleDrop Cinderella's shift at Lockheed starts at that hour]].* Creator/TexAvery was fond of using meat rationing as a theme in otherwise non-war-related cartoons such as ''Big Heel-Watha'', and ''What's Buzzin', Buzzard?''* Tex also took a jab at the draft in the 1944 MGM cartoon "Batty Baseball". One early scene shows most of the baseball players are missing--called up because they're 1A. Besides the catcher, the only other player present is the pitcher--a 4F draft reject.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tom & Jerry]]* "WesternAnimation/TheYankeeDoodleMouse" was the closest ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' ever came to having a World War II-themed short. In it, Tom and Jerry fight a war-style battle in a basement with plenty of WWII references. It ends with Jerry saluting the flag (made by a firework that Tom rode into space before it exploded), and sending off a telegram saying "Send More Cats!", a ShoutOut to the "Send More Japs!" telegram sent by the defenders of Wake Island after repelling a Japanese landing attempt.* In "The Lonesome Mouse", we see Jerry [[GodwinsLaw paint a Hitler mustache and comb-over on a picture of Tom]] and then spit at it.[[/folder]]

[[folder: MGM Oneshots]]* Two of the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoons are explicit wartime cartoons: "War Dogs" and "The Stork's Holiday". "Innertube Antics" plot is also a nod to the strict rationing of rubber during the war years.* ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' had at least two wartime shorts; "The Rookie Bear", where he is drafted into the army, and "Barney Bear's Victory Garden" which has Barney prepare a victory garden. One gag had him get the soil ready by making a huge portrait of Hitler so that it gets bombed by passing B-19s. Another scene depicts UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini as an eggplant.** There was also "Bear Raid Warden", which depicts him as an overzealous air-raid warden determined to keep all lights off at night. * "Inner Tube Antics" has a donkey dealing with a leaky inner tube buried in his yard that tends to snicker as its air leaks. The donkey keeps trying to yank it out of the ground for the neighborhood rubber drive, resulting in his uncovering a huge pile of tires and rubber tubes.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Warner Brothers]]Lots of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons from that era had subtle jokes in them reflecting home-front conditions, even ones that don't overtly address the war. Gas rationing "A" cards were common, as were jokes about scrap metal collections, victory gardens, civil defense drills (someone yelling "Put out that light!"), and general shortages of rubber, butter and meat. Some of the gags ever persisted well after the end of WWII itself.* In "An Itch In Time" features a tiny flea pestering Elmer Fudd's pet dog. Released at the height of the war in 1943, it is predictably rife with food rationing jokes. The flea carries a tiny set of ration stamps, and diligently tears them off before biting, and at the end of the cartoon, he carries both Elmer and the dog away on a plate marked "Blue Plate Special, no points" while singing "No more meatless Tuesdays for me!" Said flea also takes refuge in a "[[IncrediblyLamePun Hair Raid]] Shelter"* The 1943 Bugs Bunny cartoon ''Falling Hare'', in which Bugs battles a gremlin which is seeking to sabotage the war effort, culminating in an imminent plane crash which halts inches above the ground because the plane — due to having a low-priority gas ration sticker — has run out of fuel.-->'''Gremlin''': "Sorry folks! We ran out of gas!"-->'''Bugs''': "Yeah, you know how it is with these "A" cards!" * In 1942's ''A Tale of Two Kitties'' a pair of cats try to get at Tweety (this being his very first short, he isn't named yet) in his nest. In their final attempt, one puts on a crude pair of wooden wings and tries to fly up to the nest. Tweety puts on an "Air Raid Warden" helmet and calls in a sighting of an "unidentified object". Spotlights immediately light up the sky and anti-aircraft guns shoot the cat down. One of the cats is also briefly seen tending to a Victory Garden, while the other has a blink-and-miss-it gag where he's wearing a British-style army helmet and smoking a cigar, an obvious ShoutOut to Winston Churchill. * ''WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit'' is a wartime retelling of the classic nursery story in which Grandma never appears, because she's off working the swing shift at Lockheed.* ''WesternAnimation/DaffyTheCommando'' had him bamboozling a pair of Nazi soldiers, and culminated in Daffy hitting Hitler over the head with a mallet, upon which Der Fuhrer gave an indignant shout of "SCHULTZ!"* Characters that fall down or take a long slide often will use the phrase "Was that/Is this trip really necessary?", a common slogan used to encourage people not to take unnecessary trips to free up gas and rubber for the war effort and to free up space on trains to ferry troops to their duty locations. Daffy uses it when he's dropped down a trap door in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery''. In "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs", after calmly tagging out a runner who had been running the bases, Bugs holds up a sign with the same message. Another cartoon ended with Bugs Bunny escaping on a train but suddenly realizing that "None of us civilians should be doing any unnecessary traveling these days" before jumping off and walking towards the sunset.** Another instance of this happened in "Nasty Quacks," when Daffy packs up and leaves a man's house, then comes back to tell him that the government doesn't want anyone to do any non-essential traveling -- the war had ended by the time the short was released, but rationing of some items and commodities was still in effect until the economy could switch over from a wartime footing to a peacetime footing again.* Similarly, in ''Wagon Heels'', the wagon train Porky Pig is scouting for passes a billboard that asks "Is this trip REALLY necessary?"* The Bugs Bunny cartoon ''Super-Rabbit'' (a parody of the Fleischer ''{{Superman}}'' cartoons) ends with Bugs going into a phonebooth and changing into "a '''real''' superman" — a Marine. He then promptly marches off to war. The actual [[SemperFi United States Marines]] were so flattered by this that they actually made Bugs a Marine. He was eventually promoted to Master Sergeant.* Friz Freleng's ''WesternAnimation/HerrMeetsHare'', in which Bugs leads [[ThoseWackyNazis Herman Goering]] through a HumiliationConga. Notable for being the first time Bugs is depicted tunneling underground as a mode of transportation, and the first time he says [[WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque "I knew I should have taken a left turn at Albuquerque"]] and was the inspiration for the Brunhilde opera sequence that would later be seen in Chuck Jones's magnum opus (among many), ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''* ''Scrap Happy Daffy'' had him protecting a huge scrap metal heap from the Germans, who attacked with a submarine firing a torpedo with a Nazi goat inside it. And then Daffy is inspired by patriotic visions ("Americans don't give up!") to become a "Super American" (duck) and thrash the Nazi saboteurs.* One example that seems quite edgy in retrospect — ''WesternAnimation/DrafteeDaffy'' has fair-weather patriot Daffy Duck dodging "the little man from the draft board", who it turns out will literally follow him to [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]] to serve the notice. Related to the above, at one point Daffy tries to escape by buying a plane ticket only to be met with "Is this trip REALLY necessary?"* Though made primarily to teach military men proper behavior and skills on duty, ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' should be listed here as an example of a war-toon made for the military. It was produced by Warner Brothers, and the earlier toons were written by Dr. Seuss (the dialogue in some is of the silly-rhyming style he'd later use in his children's books). Chuck Jones directed a bunch of them, this was his and Seuss' collaboration before ''How The Grinch Stole Christmas''. Unlike the Looney Tunes cartoons made for general audiences, the Private Snafu cartoons made for the military included a lot more risque gags, mostly involving women in various stages of undress (mostly bras, panties, and stockings, but there were times where the women shown were topless) and uses of the words, "hell" and "damn" ([[ValuesDissonance which, back then were considered shocking]]).** A case of SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, since the situations shown are often life-or-death scenarios and Snafu's actions regularly put him on the losing side, with the Nazis and Japanese attaining victory due to his incompetence.** Aside from what not to do when on leave, one cartoon shows why you should use mosquito netting when posted in the tropics. Another, why having your mail censored is a necessary frustration.** Famously, a Private Snafu cartoon late in the war about the importance of not blabbering too much about military matters when on leave was later pulled when the joke (Snafu telling his date all about a secret new bomb that could level an island) came a little too close to describing the then-underway [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons Manhattan Project]].* One Merrie Melodies cartoon, "Foney Fables", poked fun at rationing with a parody of "Old Mother Hubbard" — she goes to fetch her poor dog a bone and opens one door of her cupboard to show that nothing's in it...but the dog opens the other door to reveal a huge cache of food, then turns her in for hoarding. Another gag has a goose that usually lays golden eggs contributing to a scrap metal pile by laying aluminum ones instead. Yet another parodies "The Grasshopper and The Ant" with the ant chiding the grasshopper's laziness until the grasshopper reveals he's done his part as well by buying War Bonds.* The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''WesternAnimation/TheDucktators'' involved duck versions of Hitler, Mussolini, and UsefulNotes/HidekiTojo attempting to take over a barnyard. Unlike most of the cartoons on this list, this short has been shown on public domain video and during the early days of television (with the "Buy War Bonds" ending removed). Cartoon Network's animation history show, ''Series/ToonHeads'' and the last volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD did manage to show ''The Ducktators'' with the original ending intact.* Creator/BobClampett's ''WesternAnimation/RussianRhapsody'' (1944) features Hitler himself flying a plane to bomb Moscow, but getting thwarted by a group of Gremlins.* Creator/FrizFreleng's ''Fifth Column Mouse'' (1943) was an allegorical tale of the start of World War II. A cat (Hitler) convinces one of the mice (Neville Chamberlain) that he will not eat them if they treat him as their master. After the cat turns on them, they build a robot dog which chases him out of the house to the tune of "We Did it Before".* Creator/FrankTashlin's ''Brother Brat'', centered around Porky Pig babysitting a surly, violent infant while his mother is at work in a defense plant and opens with a stirring vignette saluting women working such roles. Tashlin's cinematic style is shown to great effect. Has aired on television a few times (mostly on the Ted Turner-owned networks like TBS and Creator/CartoonNetwork), with the ending of baby Percy imitating UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill removed (probably because the censors balked at the image of a baby holding a cigar, yet the mother asking Porky, "You want those Nazis and Japs bombed off the Earth, don't ya?!" [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar was not edited at all]]).* ''The Fighting 69th 1/2'', released in early 1941, featured a battle between red ants and black ants that was an allegory of UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne.* There were also several rather controversial shorts produced that you'll rarely -- if ever -- see on television. Two notable examples are ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyNipsTheNips'' (where Bugs encounters stereotyped Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island) and Norm [=McCabe's=] ''WesternAnimation/TokioJokio'' (a mockumentary of the Japanese and their everyday lives, with most gags resulting in them getting killed by everyone and everything they come across.) Though it did include such [[IncrediblyLamePun lame visual puns]] as the "Imperial Plane Spotter", who went around painting polka dots on airplanes, and a rather [[HarsherInHindsight darkly ironic]] joke about the fire prevention headquarters being burned to the ground.** ''WesternAnimation/TokioJokio'' was in fact deemed offensive ''[[UpToEleven even at the time]]'' and AOL-Time Warner refuses to air or release it in any form.** The banned 1943 short ''WesternAnimation/CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs'' gets a special double-mention. Not only do the racist stereotypes make showing it unlikely, but there's plenty of other wartime gags included. A group of killers named "Murder Inc." advertise that they will rub out anybody for $1.00, midgets are [[StealthPun half-price]], and Japs are free. When the evil queen is introduced, we see she's a hoarder of sugar, coffee, and tires (all of which were rationed during World War II), the prince's fancy roadster has wheels cobbled from old shoes in lieu of tires, and the heroic dwarfs are in the Army.* Interestingly, the only cartoon that actually featured Bugs Bunny directly in the Army didn't debut until after WWII — 1952's ''Forward March Hare'' wherein Bugs mistakenly gets a conscription letter meant for his neighbor.* Similarly, in ''One Meat Brawl'', a groundhog emerges from his hole on Groundhog Day and is immediately fired on by a pack of hunters. Retreating to safety, he blames it on "meat shortages". The cartoon debuted post-WWII (1947), but rationing was sill fresh enough in the public mind to be played as a gag.* Frank Tashlin's ''WesternAnimation/PlaneDaffy'' stars the duck in a squadron of carrier pigeons. As the resident woman-hater, he's sent out to deliver an important message without being seduced by Nazi spy [[UsefulNotes/MataHari Hatta Mari]], who's managed to claim 28 of the previous pigeons.** This one has quite possibly [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the funniest gag]] of all WB's WWII cartoons (censored in some of the later broadcasts for reasons you'll see below):--->''(Daffy, despite swallowing the secret to protect it, is trapped by Hatta Mari in an X-Ray device)''--->'''Hatta:''' ''(saluting Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels watching from a remote screen)'' Look, mein Fuhrer! An important military secret!--->'''Hitler:''' Ach! Das is goot!--->''(the X-ray shows a note in Daffy's stomach reading "Hitler is a Stinker")''--->'''Hitler:''' HITLER IS A SCHTINKER?! ''Dot's no military secret!''--->'''Goering and Goebbels:''' Ja, ''everybody'' knows dot!--->''(Hitler gives them a DeathGlare; they promptly pull out pistols and [[DrivenToSuicide shoot themselves in the head]])''--->'''Daffy:''' They lose more darn Nutzis that way! Woo-hoo!* There's also the short musical commercial colloquially titled, ''WesternAnimation/AnyBondsToday'', where Bugs, Elmer and Porky sing and dance to promote war bonds.* In ''Hare Conditioned'', Bugs is being chased though a department store by the manager, and at one point, disguises himself as the elevator operator. As they are going up in the elevator, Bugs calls out the next floor as having items such as "Rubber tires, nylon hose, sugar, bourbon, butter...and other picture postcards." FridgeBrilliance is that these were items rationed during the war and weren't available to the public in any meaningful quantity, the rest of the cartoon didn't even reference the war.* 1942's ''Daffy Duckaroo'' has a group of indians attack a traveling Daffy, and steal the ''tires'' off his trailer. They then angrily give them back because they're the wrong size. In another scene, he's shown pointing a gun at his pursuer and making "pop" noises, explaining "We don't use any ammunition folks, we save it all for the army!"* ''WesternAnimation/TheDucktators'' from 1942 was directed by Norm McCabe. It's a WWII satire depicting Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito as waterfowl who take over a farm.[[/folder]]

[[folder: Walter Lantz]]* ''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B''* ''$21 A Day (Once A Month)''* ''WesternAnimation/AndyPanda's Victory Garden''* ''Ration Bored'': The whole plot is based on Woody stealing gas due to the wartime rationing of it. The title is even a pun on the "Ration Board".* ''Woody Dines Out'': Makes a couple of nods of the wartime conditions.* ''Take Heed, Mr. Tojo'': An outsourced short for Warner Bros. Seaman Hook series, directed by ShamusCulhane.* ''The Enemy Bacteria'': A military instructional film made by Lantz's studio.* ''WesternAnimation/TheBarberOfSeville'': Woody is interested in a V-shaped "victory cut" hairdo. But the barber was drafted.[[/folder]]

[[folder: Columbia Cartoons]]* Screen Gems made several wartime shorts, most notably "Song of Victory", which features an allegory of how UsefulNotes/WorldWar2 started.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Others]]* ''Anime/MomotarosSeaEagles'' and ''Anime/MomotarosDivineSeaWarriors'' are '''Japanese''' animated films from the war period, featuring cute characters based on Japanese mythology invading East Asia and killing Allies — proving that both sides played this game.* ''Nimbus Libere'', a cartoon produced under German pressure in Vichy France, in which French civilians are killed by an Allied bombing raid. What makes the cartoon really weird is that the bomber pilots are Western cartoon heroes--Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck etc. It capitalized on Allied bombings over France (which killed more people than the Blitz did in UK) to win popular support, and also threw in a antisemitic caricature.* Though (allegedly) not cartoons, several ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' shorts had wartime themes, the most cringe-worthy of which (''The Yolk's on Me'') used actual Japanese-American internees bused from a "relocation center" (aka internment camp) to play the "bad guys". Though rarely seen today, it was still in the TV rotation as late as the early 1970s.* "WesternAnimation/TulipsShallGrow" (1942) has the "Screwballs", actual balls with screws in them but obvious analogues for the Nazis, come rolling into Holland bringing devastation and misery. (The Nazis occupied Holland in 1940.)* On the funny pages, ComicStrip/DickTracy battled Pruneface, spy for the Nazis and manufacturer of nerve gas.* In ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie'', Daddy Warbucks became a general and Annie, at one point, blew up a Nazi sub. She also led the war effort on the home front with her "Junior Commandos", which were [[{{Defictionalization}} imitated in real life]].* If you count comics as cartoons the [[BritishComics British]] AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' and ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' had obvious wartime propaganda issues with good examples being the strips [[UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini Musso the Wop]] from ComicBook/TheBeano and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Addie]] and Hermy in ''ComicBook/TheDandy''. Also there weren't just comic strips mocking the axis leadership - characters which had existed before the war such as Desperate Dan, Lord Snooty and Pansy Potter occasionally fought the Nazis during the war.* The UrExample dates back to UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CPbmCYxPmA The Sinking Of The Lusitania]]" by Creator/WinsorMcCay in 1918. [=McCay=] personally drew over 25,000 frames of realistic animation by hand to create a nine-minute documentary of the ship's sinking, explicitly making the propaganda point that it was an act of war aggression by the Germans. It is also regarded as the first film to treat animation as a serious, dramatic art form.[[/folder]]

----!!Modern-day homages and parodies:* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy and Scratchy The Movie]]'' [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Itchy & Scratchy]] did a wartime cartoon where they [[EnemyMine team up]] (briefly) to kill Hitler. After chopping Hitler's head off, Itchy does the same to Scratchy. On top of that, [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt FDR]] runs in and kicks both Hitler and Scratchy in the butt while Itchy holds a sign, "Save Scrap Iron".* An "X-Presidents" cartoon on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' parodied these, as the titular former president superheroes tried to get WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants to make a cartoon supporting the war in Iraq. Spongebob wasn't interested, and things turned ugly.* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' paid {{homage}} to wartime cartoons in [[Recap/SouthParkS5E9OsamaBinLadenHasFartyPants "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants"]], where Cartman bamboozles UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden a la WesternAnimation/BugsBunny while the other boys escape from the terrorist leader's lair.** Another episode features Cartman asking Santa Claus to bring Christmas to Iraq and they end up shooting him down and kidnapping him, so it's up to the boys and Jesus to rescue him. The ending features Jesus and Santa blowing away many terrorists with machine guns, but Jesus ends up sacrificing himself so they can escape and to save time Santa turns the terrorists' weapons into toys and candy so they can't shoot them down.** Part 1 of "[[Recap/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]" features terrorists invading Imaginationland and killing many fictional characters. They use a rocket character to release the evil characters, getting killed themselves in the process.** "I'm a Little Bit Country", which looks at protest over the war in Iraq. Turns out the answer is to go to war and ''then'' protest against it.* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Osama Bin Laden making a fool of himself while trying to record a death threat. Stewie eventually shows up and kicks his ass, before [[StuffBlowingUp blowing up his cave]] and escaping back to Quahog. The whole thing doubles as a send-up of the openings to the ''Film/TheNakedGun'' movies.** Another memorable bit has a suicide bomber asking his handlers what he's going to do afterwards, and their (failed) attempts to explain the concept to him.** A suicide bomber gets to heaven and tries to cash in on his promise of seventy-some-odd virgins. [[IronicHell He's shown a huge group of comic book and gaming nerds playing]] ''VideoGame/MagicTheGathering'', much to his dismay.** "OSAMAAAA!"** The pre-9/11 episode "Road to Rhode Island" has Stewie distracting the guards at an airport security check by singing and dancing so that his bag (full of weapons) goes through the x-ray undetected. Upon picking it up, he says "Let's hope Osama Bin Laden doesn't know showtunes!" As he walks away, Osama shows up using the same technique. The Osama scene is cut from the later airings and the Volume 1 DVD, but is intact on the "Freakin' Sweet Collection" DVD.* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' did a short with the Warner Siblings that would have fit right in with the actual shorts above, which focused on recycling for the war effort. With all the zany gags that implies.** An episode during the First Gulf War had Yakko, Wakko, and [[{{Crossover}} Slappy]] antagonizing UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein.--> '''Sodarn Insane:''' I am the great ''Sodarn Insane!''--> '''Slappy:''' [[RunningGag And I'm Princess Angelina Contessa Luisa Francesca...]] [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Aw, forget it:]] here, have some dynamite down yer pants.** A later episode, in which the Warners [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext accidentally arrive in Hell trying to go to the Six Flags at Flushing Meadows]], begins with UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein being sent there via trapdoor and tormented by Satan and his minions.** There was also a short with Rita and Runt that takes place during the Nazi invasion of Poland, where Rita and Runt keep the Nazi's dog, Schnappsi (who happens to be Newt from the Minerva Mink shorts), and the Nazis themselves, from finding a Polish girl and her father and taking them to a concentration camp.** A Goodfeathers episode, "Dough Dough Boys," has Bobby, Pesto, and Squit as messenger pigeons during WWI.* ''WesternAnimation/FreedomForce2'', being a big tribute to comics of the era, naturally has this in spades.* ''WesternAnimation/CityOfHeroes'' likewise has quite a few tributes. Much of the {{backstory}} involves the major heroes and villains fighting in WWII, and the trailer includes a hero throwing a Nazi tank. The game even has a Nazi villain group, the 5th Column, which players can fight against.* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' based on World War II had a skit with the leaders of the Allied Forces as a band of superheroes called "The Freedom League".* ''WesternAnimation/EpicMickey'', while not being an homage per se, draws quite a bit of its imagery from this kind of cartoons. And by "a bit", we mean ''an entire race of [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]]''.* A chilling moment from the movie ''Film/TheRocketeer'' had Howard Hughes show Cliff Secord a Nazi propaganda cartoon showing squadrons of [[StupidJetpackHitler jetpack-wearing Nazis]] as the vanguard of an invasion force against America. Especially chilling considering that the movie was a Disney Studios production!* Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy has [[http://galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=532 this]].* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has seven "What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.?" videos aimed to explain the game's skill system to new players. In-universe, they're propaganda cartoons produced by Vault-Tec to help the population prepare for a nuclear apocalypse (although the writers at Vault-Tec would have had to be pretty prescient to know that people and animals would mutate from radiation exposure, and that caps would become the main form of currency - among other things).

----!!Other Examples:

* North Korean animation [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujtp-70zQME follows this Trope]], only in the modern day and the enemy is the United States. Propaganda surely knows no country.* The Armenian-made ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_zSwwofx4E Kill Dim]]'' cartoons are a modern example pertaining to the Nagorno-Karabakh War (caution: they're likely to offend you if you're from Azerbaijan).